Ever wanted to message a YouTube user personally? Unfortunately, YouTube doesn’t have a built-in messaging tool anymore. So how can you contact your favorite YouTuber? You have a few methods at your disposal, as we’ll explain below.
On YouTube, a user can list an email address publicly in their profile. If the user who you want to contact has this email address listed, all you need to do is reveal it, and you can get in touch with them.
If you don’t prefer emailing, or the user hasn’t added their email to their YouTube profile, you can check whether the user has listed their social media profiles in their YouTube account. You can then visit their profiles and message the user from there.
We’ll show you how to use both of these methods to contact a user on YouTube.
How to Find a YouTube User’s Email Address
To find a YouTube user’s email address, you’ll have to use the official YouTube site in a web browser on your Windows, Mac, Linux, or Chromebook computer. YouTube’s mobile app doesn’t show this email address.
To get started, open the YouTube site in a web browser on your computer. At the top, click the search box and type the name of the user or channel you want to contact. Then, press Enter.
Select the user to contact in the search results.
On the channel page that opens, from the tabs bar beneath the banner image (the large image at the top of the page), select the “About” tab.
In the “About” tab under the “Details” section, click “View Email Address.”
After clicking “View Email Address,” you’ll see Google’s reCaptcha prompt. Select “I’m Not a Robot” in this prompt, and then click “Submit.”
In the “For Business Inquiries” field, you’ll now see the channel’s email address.
You can now send an email to this email address from any of your email service providers (like Gmail or Outlook, for example).
Alternate Ways to Message a YouTube User
If a YouTube user hasn’t listed their email address in their profile, look in their videos’ descriptions and see whether you can find an email listed there instead.
To do so, open a video from that user. Beneath the title of the video, you’ll see the video’s description. Go through this description and see whether you can find an email listed here.
If the video’s description doesn’t have the email address, it’s possible that the user doesn’t want to be contacted by email. In this case, see whether the user has listed their social media profiles in their YouTube account.
On the same “About” page on YouTube, scroll to the “Links” section. Here, you’ll find the user’s social media profile links. Click any link to be taken to that social site.
For example, if you click an Instagram link, you’ll be taken to the user’s profile on the Instagram site. Note the user’s username and search for and open the profile in the Instagram app on your phone. You have to use this method because Instagram’s web version doesn’t allow you to send messages.
In the Instagram app on your phone, on the user’s profile page, tap “Message” to send a message to the user.
And that’s how you get in touch with your favorite YouTubers!
